Lichtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. Schengen candidates are: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Romania and Croatia. Great Britain and Ireland are exceptions. Visa free travel will not apply to them. Negotiations between Georgia and EU on visa liberalization were launched on June 4, 2012. The Georgian government was given the Visa Liberalization Action Plan on February 25, 2013. It included the benchmarks to be met by Georgia to receive visa free travel. In December 2015 the EU Commission assessed the fulfillment of the benchmarks positively and published a positive recommendation. The EU Parliament resolved the visa free travel issue in favor of Georgia at the plenary session. Certain technical procedures are still to be carried out that will supposedly be completed till the end of March.

Georgian detainees Maia Otinashvili and Akaki Dotiashvili are freed from the Tskhinvali prison. They had been accused of illegally crossing a so-called the borderline into the occupied Tskhinvali region.

On the 28th of October, presidential elections will be held in Georgia. The last elections in October 2013 resulted in a victory for Giorgi Margvelashvili, a candidate of the Georgian Dream (the ruling party).